Well, here we are. 100 days of Labour tomorrow.

Aaah. The London Gateway is a Freeport. In other words, free of UK regulations and taxation. A haven for money launderers and smugglers. Where workers have no rights...

No wonder the Arab oil states are keen to invest. Suits them down to the ground...

It's all our so-called green schemes have done already. Totally pointless whether you think climate change is a crisis or a scam.

All his scheme is going to do is move the UK’s carbon footprint abroad.

Just so, GG13.

What saddens me most about this government and the last one is how dim most of our politicians seem to be. Something has gone badly wrong with how people are educated here if they are among the most schooled.

My chin will stay up but there will be a lot of eye-rolling unless they get a proverbial kick up the backside of sense.

Why the need to call Starmer a name? We're not in primary school - I had hoped we'd have grown out of that kind of thing.

Louise Haigh and Angela Rayner are also close to scuppering a flagship investment of £1bn by DP World at the London container yard

Two Tier Kier needs to get his gang singing from the same hymn sheet. They are carrying on like they are still in opposition with no clear plan for the future. Coming on top of the WFP and "freebies" rows this does not look good.

Now we have the emerging Harrods acandal which is likely to at least equate to the Jimmy Saville affair. Lets not forget who was head of the CPS when some of these complaints were being brushed under the rug,

Calendargirl

^Every new house being built should have solar panels as a matter of course^

As stated previously though, not every property is suitable.

The roof has to face the right way, it needs to have a suitable pitch, it must not have trees or buildings too near it….

Not as straightforward as just sticking solar panels on every available surface.

Maybe the direction of the building and pitch of the roof could be considered at the planning stage, so that the maximum number of buildings could be used for solar panels.

This is another brouhaha that will come to nought - simply the desperation of the right wing press.

DP World have not said that it will not invest.

MaizieD

I looked up DP World last night. It is a massive conglomerate, financed by oil money from States with dubious human rights records. It has, of course, become huge by buying existing companies.

I'm not sure that I really want the UK to be bought up by the arab oil states and the P & O affair was appalling.

Ironic that we don't want foreigners to live in the UK but we're quite happy to be owned by them...

It's not just being owned by foreigners Maizie, if the people working on site are foreign agency workers, there will be little net gain to the UK. The government has said that they'll be protected by the new employment laws - we'll see. It is odd though, when people are supposed to be against immigration.

PS. It was Louise Haigh, not Angela Rayner, who apparently said something to upset DP World, but anything to have a go a Rayner!

I looked up DP World last night. It is a massive conglomerate, financed by oil money from States with dubious human rights records. It has, of course, become huge by buying existing companies.

I'm not sure that I really want the UK to be bought up by the arab oil states and the P & O affair was appalling.

Ironic that we don't want foreigners to live in the UK but we're quite happy to be owned by them...

Every new house being built should have solar panels as a matter of course

As stated previously though, not every property is suitable.

The roof has to face the right way, it needs to have a suitable pitch, it must not have trees or buildings too near it….

Not as straightforward as just sticking solar panels on every available surface.

mum2three

Usually, when a new government takes over, there is a feeling of hope and positivity. It wasn't there this time. The only reason that Labour won the election was because the Tories were so incompetent.
Starmer just isn't Prime Minister material. The way he keeps changing his mind about things shows that he can't be trusted.
The Conservatives need to act quickly to get themselves ready to take over and, hopefully learn from their mistakes.

There isn't much sign they're doing that.

Unless there's an absolute disaster, there won't be another election for nearly five years.

eazybee

So predictable when people such as Angela Rayner are promoted way beyond their capabilities.

I'm not really sure what she actually said, but are you aware how DP World has treated British workers in the past?

Usually, when a new government takes over, there is a feeling of hope and positivity. It wasn't there this time. The only reason that Labour won the election was because the Tories were so incompetent.
Starmer just isn't Prime Minister material. The way he keeps changing his mind about things shows that he can't be trusted.
The Conservatives need to act quickly to get themselves ready to take over and, hopefully learn from their mistakes.

So predictable when people such as Angela Rayner are promoted way beyond their capabilities.

sharon103

Oh dear. Not going very well is it.

www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1960756/angela-rayners-big-mouth-costs-UK-1bn-investment?utm_source=daily_express_

Are you in favour of fire and rehire of cheaper, foreign workers?

Oh dear. Not going very well is it.

www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1960756/angela-rayners-big-mouth-costs-UK-1bn-investment?utm_source=daily_express_

Allsorts

What a bunch of hypocrites. Greedy and self serving. How come with the huge deficit, we can find the money for 1000 immigrants in one day, think of all the dependants that means funded by us. Trouble is we have a weak opposition too. Very depressing.

Well said Allsorts

ronib

Casdon surely the point is that the government won’t get the full amount first calculated because more pupils will be in the State system and that is a cost! In fact does the government do sums?

The birthrate fell for the pupils now in schools and there are spare places.

Allira

growstuff

FriedGreenTomatoes2

Power cuts, very expensive energy for homes and business; 20k oil workers losing their jobs. Racing ahead too fast before the science is ready - I'm thinking heat pumps, electric cars. The list goes on. Miliband scares me. He’s like a zealot.

Oil workers can be retrained to install wind farms and solar panels (and maintain them).

Really?
It is quite a different area of expertise.

I have a close relative who did exactly that.

FriedGreenTomatoes2

Actually, people seem to be assuming that parents will just pay the extra VAT; they won’t (not all). They’ll just stop spending elsewhere: meals out, holidays, local businesses etc etc. same VAT spend just in a different place and meanwhile small businesses suffer. Not sure quite how that works with the growth agenda.

The number of parents who will be affected is very small.

winterwhite

I'm not a Labour Party supporter and am disappointed in KS's leadership, but goodness I'm fed up with this relentless gleeful carping after only three months.

It was a serious reputational error to have announced two measures likely to hit the poorest hardest without parallel measures ensuring that the richest contribute fairly. We trust that these will come later.

It was a silly mistake not to realise how the freebies would look. Someone should have spotted this and stopped it before it happened. I don't think it was greed. Sorted out when realised.

I assume there is more to the Sue Gray episode than meets the eye and she doesn't come out of it well, but sorted out, we hope, when realised.

Do these early blunders shake my preference for a new Labour Government over more years of the Tories? Certainly not.

Well said, winterwhite, particularly as you’re not a Labour supporter.

I am a Labour supporter (although not a slavish one) and as someone who has spent most of my adult life with a government I didn’t want, and policies such as Brexit that I didn’t vote for, I am utterly fed up with the bitterness, hypocrisy and moaning from those who got used to things going their way for so long.

There have been mistakes and miscalculations, but these have been around public relations, rather than corruption and dishonesty, and there has not been time for the new government to get everyone on board - policies need time to bed in.

It’s good to see that at least some who didn’t vote Labour are able to stand back a bit and give them a chance. Thank you.

What a bunch of hypocrites. Greedy and self serving. How come with the huge deficit, we can find the money for 1000 immigrants in one day, think of all the dependants that means funded by us. Trouble is we have a weak opposition too. Very depressing.

Casdon it’s not the right way forward if right means moral. It’s bonkers.

I don’t need to wait and see ronib, I already know what I think is the right way forward. This was always on the cards when a Labour government was elected, it was policy years before Starmer was leader, so I’m not sympathetic to parents who didn’t think ahead (although I am to the children caught in the middle) - it was inevitable that a Labour government would be elected at some point.

Casdon wait and see.